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The continuing decline of direct investment from the US, the world's largest FDI source, against the backdrop of China's sustainable and high-speed FDI growth, has caused speculation over the decline of the US' manufacturing advantages over China.
Inclusive growth, or shared growth, is supposed to allow people to equitably share the benefits of economic development. It is impossible to achieve inclusive growth without promoting financial inclusion.
Ironically, while Chinese may feel the least pain from the global financial crisis, there is a new wave of fresh thinking among Chinese scholars and strategists on how development can be truly scientific. What has gone wrong and where could it lead?
Urbanization, well-managed, is a chance to put our development paradigm on the right track that will result in inclusive and sustainable development for Asia and the Pacific.
China and EU can and should contribute to international cooperation to maintain peace and expedite development
Realty prices in the United States have fallen by more than 30 percent since 2008. That is partly a result of bursting bubbles, but one of the root causes lies in changes in US population size and structure.
Curbing soaring prices has become a priority for China. In May the consumer price index (CPI), a measure of inflation, reached 5.5 percent year-on-year, a 34-month high, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
Electric motors are the single biggest consumer of electricity. They account for about 45 percent of global power consumption, according to a new analysis by the International Energy Agency.
How China's external current account surplus will evolve in the coming years is one of the key questions on the economic outlook for China and the global economy both.
Despite its promising economic growth, Asia Pacific remains vulnerable to the risks posed by volatile short-term capital flows and the resurgence of food and fuel price inflation, and, as the tragic March 11 disaster in Japan underscores, natural disasters.
Economic instability caused by the financial crisis in Western economies raises concerns for policymakers in developing countries. They are beginning to see China as a role model with respect to economic development.
Greece's ballooning public debt is again throwing Europe's financial markets into turmoil. But why should a debt default by the government of a small, peripheral economy – one which accounts for less than 3% of eurozone GDP – be so significant?
China's economic scale is second only to the US and the gap between the two will further narrow. But that will not change China's low per capita economic value.
Is China poised to surpass the United States to become the world's largest economy? The International Monetary Fund recently predicted that the size of China's economy would overtake that of the US in terms of purchasing power parity by 2016.
The Doha Round of global free-trade negotiations is on the brink of collapse after ten years of talking.
Colleagues from around the world recently gathered at PIMCO's headquarters in California for our annual Secular Forum, when we debate what the next 3-5 years hold for the global economy.
China's fertility rate is so low that population decline and rapid population aging are imminent. These demographic changes will have profound implications for China's economy.
Every time the International Monetary Fund awaits a new managing director, critics complain that it is past time for the appointee to come from an emerging-market country.
China's economy may be the second largest in the world. But the Chinese economy, as financial markets see it, can still change direction with dizzying speed.
Municipal waste management is no easy task, but there is a win-win solution for Chinese cities that fits well with the country's ambitions for circular economy and sustainable development - separating trash from treasure.
Since iPad2 went on sale in China on May 6, hundreds of iPad fans and scalpers queued up overnight at almost every Apple store. The craze even led to a violent incident in Sanlitun, Beijing. Do you think iPad2 is worth the hassle?
Beijing - Dressed in a crisp suit, Li Zhirui, sitting on the window seat of a Beijing bus, silently gazes at the European-style villas, luxury cars and illuminated shopping malls as they pass him by.